The Dillon tribune., 1887-12-09
GLEANINGS FROM THE ROCKIES.
Events Transpiring in Our Sister States
and Territories.

and Territories.
| The fine water system Of Green River,
Wyorning, is nearly completed.
The water in the Carson River, Neva.
da, is very low, and milling is hindered.
| At Cheyenne, Wyoming, Louis Loeb's
clothing store was burned. Loss, $4,000.
| The Fargo s7on,nal, the leading Prohi-
| hibition paper OF Dakota, has suspended
publication.
The legal bar--not the fluid bar-oi
Murray, Idaho, last week gave farewell
banquet to Judge Norman Buck.
The man arrested at Baker City, Oregon,
| as Peter Olsen, the Napa county (Cala.,
! murderer, has been discharged from Gus.
| tody.
Will Abrams, boy, shot and killed
Dave Sutton, county commissioner-elect OF
Eagle county, Colo, at Gypsum, near As.
pen, on the goth ult
A force Of l5o .Chinamen is employed
| in the construction Of the extension Of the
Nevada and California railroad line, run
ming north from Reno, Nevada.
The Cheyenne i.ttnity says that George
l.. Aggers, the oil expert has discovered
| flowing we'll Of petroleum near the head o.:
Folsom Spider creek in Albany county,
| Wyoming
J. b. Hickey, ex.candidate for Governor
OF Nevada, recently paid Chinaman $1oo
for thirty pounds Of mammoth wheat seed
which turned out to be nothing but hard
cned dough.
In Denver, on the 5th, the preliminary
examination OF Charles L. Henry, for the
murder of Eftie Moore, was held. Henry
was admitted to $4,000 bail, bu, has not
yet found bondsmcn.
The Laramie (Wyo) Eoome,u1y reports
that Carbon county's cash box is about
$17,ooo short this year, and that County
Attorney Dixon is about to begin proceed.
ings against the officers that arc to blame.
Boise (Idaho) Statesman. There is a
strange disease pre- ling among horses
in this vicinity and Il great number have
died from its effects. Veterinary Surgeon
Moore says it is,impossibe 70 cure horse
running on the range.
Watson and Lock wood, on trial at Chey-
cnne, Wyoming, as accessories before the
fact to murder in the first degree, were ac-
quilted. They were alleged to he in COM
plicity with VIM. Mccoy in the murder of
ChaS. Gum in January last.
Owyhcc (Idaho) -l,ul,Hthe: We learn
that a disease has broken out among
some Of the Indians campcd at the South
Mountain, which has already carried sew
cral over the dark river to their happ,
hunting ground beyond" 1t is said tha,
their heads begin to swell, and at ,hei:
death are as large as two ordinary heads.
Itis probably erysipclas.
The Coroncr's jury in the case of Ed.
mond OBricn, iynched ON The st inst at
Alamosa, Colorado, for rape, found that
said OHricn, had been hanged with a
rope, BY men unknown. "and We, the jury,
further desire to state tha: ha, ing in view
tho atrocious G inc of which the deceased
| Edmond O'Eric,', had been guilty, consid
er that he has only met with his lust de-
serts n The hands Of an outraged commu.
nifty.
Seattle, ". T. dispatch of the 10th ul, ;
Six hundred and eighty cases of dynamite
were transferred on Monday las: 20 the
steam schooner Leo" bound for Alaska
Earl" this morning. whilc the schooner was
lying At Ocean dock a fire broke out in the
engine room, caused by the upscttiur OF
an oil can. Great cxc;tcmen, cnsnad but
the engineer hcroicil!v struggled to cNtin
gsiS!l 'lc flames, and succeeded! after hi;
! face and hands wrr: severely burned, tn
! idea OF tnc i'u!1.!.>r loss which ,r,,l,1
have re>'''tc! h,J an explosion occurred
unf ':v learned from ,hn fact ,i;,t three.
ocean steamers " TT 'v:,:, orl, ,c,v Yard,
from the "I.eo.